Why is Israel hated so much by some mideast countries ? (read details)?

Question

I know I have some gaps in my knowledge on mideast relations and history, but why do the mideast nations hate israel so much ? In the words of the Iranian president, they want to wipe israel off of the map. Why so much hatred ? Please don't just answer religious differences, because many countries in the region have religious differences (e.g. India), but the focus seems to be on israel specifically. What is it that they hate about israel so much ?

Answer 1

Around 1500 years ago, the Muslims took over Israel and it became Palestine. After WW2, the UN took Palestine and gave it to the Jews to make Israel again. Now the Muslims living there didn't like this and neither did their allies.
Israel has been fighting for it's right to survive ever since.

Answer 2

After WWII, the Allies decided to make up to all of the Jewish that had suffered because of the Holocaust. Think of it as an apology for not saving them sooner, if you will. The Allies made it up to the Jews by giving them their own homeland: Israel.

The problem with this was that Israel already belonged to the Palestinians living there, and Palestinians didn't appreciate having their land given away without their consent. This was made worse by the fact that Islamic people believe that the land was given to them by Allah. Hence the fighting in Israel currently.

The reason why other middle eastern countries feel so much hatred towards Israel has nothing to do with religious differences. It's more about religious similarities. They feel that what was done to their fellow Muslims was a great injustice, therefore they show it by wanting 'to wipe Israel off of the map'.

Answer 3

Because to exist they had to kick the Palestinians out. Jews have a historical claim to Jerusalem, but before Modern Day Israel was created there was not a Jewish state there for centuries. The Palestinians had been living on Israeli land for generations. After WWII Israel was created. To top it off, muslims like to stick up for each other. Every other State in that area is Islamic! So a new Jewish state comes along, kicks out a bunch of fellow muslims - how do you think they are going to react? Also, the US wants pro US governments in that part of the World. The middle east has been heavily colonized by the europeans in the past. Israel needs an ally, the US wants its toe hold in the middle east - so the two nations back each other.

Answer 4

It really is due to hatred of the Jews by Muslims.

It goes back all the way to Isaac & Ishmael. In the Torah (Old Testament), Abraham has two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Sarah, a Hebrew woman, was the mother of Isaac and Hagar, an Egyptian slave, was the mother of Ishmael.

According to the Torah, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, and so Abraham started to sacrifice Isaac. God stopped him and told him that Isaac's descendants were Gods chosen people. That is the origin of the Jews.

Alas, Muslims have decided that the Jews have lied and have rewritten that part of the Torah and that it was really Ishmael who was to be sacrificed. Thus, they claim that Arabs are really God's chosen people and their birthright stolen from them by the Jews.

Of course, the Muslim version of these events in NOT in the Qu'ran. In some ways, the Qu'ran actually supports the version in the Torah. In some ways, it is unclear. And, this doctrine was not espoused by Muslims until after the Qu'ran appeared.

Things got worse, of course, after WWII when Britain decided to use the Protectorate of Palestine as a homeland for Jews. There was plenty of anti-Jewish sentiment all over Europe, so when Britain began to allow emigration of British Jews to Palestine, quite a few other countries joined in. American Jews supported it and so did the American government. The residents of Palestine were not consulted on these decisions and had no voice.

By 1948, there were so many European (and other) Jews in Israel, that the Palestinians were a minority in parts of Palestine. That's when the elections of 1948 were held and the state of Israel was created. There was a brief civil war which the pro-Israel forces won.

Then, the Palestinians made a critical mistake. They decided that they would countenance the new state and, quite literally, left their home and moved to camps on the other side of the Jordan and in the West Bank. The homes and property left by the Palestinians were quickly taken over by Israelis and there was no way for them to return.

The Arabs have tried to push Israel back to the sea -- most notably in the Yom Kippur War (1967) and the Six-Day War (1973). They lost both times.

The fighting will end when the Muslims want it to and no sooner. They will never be able to make Israel vanish. They will have to deal with it.

Answer 5

some say it's because of the UN creating the state in 1947 by political decree from Palestine. This seems to be the catalyst for a lot of the ill feeling. Israel has built a modern country where quality of life is high. The Palestinians on the other hand have suffered crushing poverty and low quality of life. Classic conflict between the haves and the have nots.

Answer 6

why israel is hated:

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).



Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

because the jews have massacred thousands of palestinians in the years since they moved to israel. they killed people and then took their homes. other muslims fled and there are still some in refugee camps who have the keys to their homes. but they cant go back because the israelis moved in to their homes and claimed them. obviosly the palestinians did not like this and the other countries in the region were horrified at the massacres and mass killings of palestinians by israelis. the palestinians have turned to terrorism because no one is listening to them and no one knows about the horrifying things that israel did and is still doing. so they turned to terrorism themselves because it gets more attention.

Answer 9

if you want to know the real root of this problem, go read the Bible. Read where God lead Isreal into the promised land.
God told Isreal to completely wipe out the inhabitants and not make a treaty with any.
They made a treaty.
It is written that God told Isreal (the nation) that they would have problems with the inhabitants FOREVER
THAT is why Isalm hates Jews, and will stop at nothing to try to destroy them!

Answer 10

Israels right to exist has been a religious conflict forever